These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
MEL BROOKSRhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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